Hollywood Director 1992.

Chapter 247 Box Office Review
After attending the celebration party held by the company, Link temporarily put aside his work and took Monica, Jennifer, Liu Xiaoli and others to Hawaii for vacation to enjoy the sunshine, beaches and beauties.

By September, the summer vacation season has come to an end.

"Complete Cinema" magazine released the performance report of major film companies during this year's summer vacation.

This year's summer vacation season starts in May and ends at the end of August. A total of 69 movies have been released. Currently, six movies have grossed over 13 million US dollars in North America, and 5000 movies have grossed over million US dollars in North America. The number of movies that have grossed over million is three more than last year's summer vacation season.

Among them, films from Guess What Pictures, Paramount Pictures and Disney Pictures performed well during the summer vacation.

Guess What Pictures released three movies during the summer. Speed and Se1.22en all grossed over 2.05 million dollars in North America, which were 637 million and 220 million U.S. dollars respectively. The third one was Eat Drink Man Woman directed by Ang Lee, which was released in early August and currently has a box office of million U.S. dollars. Although it did not sell well, it is also a profitable movie compared to the production cost of million U.S. dollars.

Paramount Pictures has released 6 films. "Forrest Gump" currently has a North American box office of 2.18 million, and "The Untold Story" is expected to exceed million.

Disney Pictures released a total of 8 films. The North American box office of "The Lion King" exceeded 2.5 million, and the North American box office of "When a Man Loves a Woman" and "League of Legends" reached 5000 million US dollars.

The performance of several other film companies was average.

The most unprofitable movie in this summer's summer vacation was the western action film "Wyatt Earp" produced by Warner Bros. Pictures.

The film stars superstar Kevin Costner, cost $6300 million to produce, has a current box office of $1541 million, and is expected to lose more than $ million.

The second one is "Night Colors" released by Disney Pictures, which is expected to lose more than 30 million.

The third is Paramount Pictures' "Beverly Cop 3", which cost $5000 million to produce and currently has a box office of $3648 million, a loss of about $ million. Including the additional publicity costs incurred by Paramount Pictures to suppress "Speed", the loss exceeded $ million.

The fourth film, "The Hitman's Bodyguard," produced by Columbia Pictures, was released in July with a production cost of $7 million. The current box office is less than $4000 million, and the estimated loss is more than $600 million.

The other three of the seven major film studios also had several movies that clearly lost money at the box office, with MGM losing as much as $2 million.

From this point of view, Guess What Pictures is undoubtedly the biggest winner of this summer season.

After the film company's report card came out, Guess What Pictures' performance in the summer vacation season attracted a lot of attention.

Especially under the suppression of the Big Seven film studios, Guess Pictures' "Speed" and "Seven" sold well one after another, with one film selling more than 3 million yuan and the other breaking the million yuan mark in North America. The total box office revenue exceeded million US dollars, and the box office revenue ranked first among its peers.

This achievement is so dazzling that the seven major film studios pale in comparison.

Aaron Kutcher, deputy editor of The Hollywood Reporter, commented in a joking tone that in fact the Big Seven Studios did not suppress Guess What Pictures, but were helping Guess What Pictures distribute its films.

For example, when Speed was released, the Big 7 studios were worried that the film would not be popular enough at the box office, so they deliberately arranged several bad films to compete with Speed. With the selfless help of the Big 7 studios, Speed easily won. After Se7en was released, the Big 7 studios were worried that the film was not famous enough, so they raised millions of dollars to publish negative reviews of Se7en in the media, drawing more attention to Se7en, and forcing fans who liked Se7en to stand up and support the film and speak out for it. With the selfless help of the Big 7 studios, Se7en became a big hit again.

Therefore, Guess the Movies should thank the Big Seven Pictures, which also made great contributions to the sales of Guess the Movies.

The Los Angeles Times was relatively objective and neutral when commenting on the summer season performance. The newspaper believed that the huge sales of Guess What Pictures' films were due to both strength and luck. The first was strength, as both films released by Guess What Pictures during the summer season were of good quality.

"Speed" is a qualified popcorn movie, with car racing, gun battles, handsome men and beautiful women, and police fighting criminals. The plot is tight and exciting, with constant excitement, and it has the potential to be a big hit.

"Seven" is of higher quality. In this movie, Link used his extremely high ability to control the plot to integrate the elements of art films and commercial films together, making this movie not only have profound artistic connotations, but also have the selling points of commercial films. With the blessing of the Palme d'Or, the movie's popularity is also due to its strength.

At the same time, the huge sales of the two films were also due to the factor of luck. When "Speed" was released, the performance of several films released at the same time was lower than expected, which left a lot of box office for this film. When "Seven" was released, it encountered the "Simpson Villa Case". This case was related to the plot of the movie, which brought extremely high popularity and attention to the movie.

The Los Angeles Times believes that the huge sales of Speed and Se7en are due to both strength and luck.

Some media also commented on the news that Guess the Movie became the biggest winner of the summer vacation in a less objective tone.

The Chicago Tribune commented that Link once said on a talk show that he would no longer use social news to hype his movies in the future, but he did not do so. After the "Simpson House Case" occurred, Link and Guess What Pictures were obviously using this case to hype up their movies, and Link broke his promise.

Soon, some media outlets refuted the Chicago Tribune's views on Link's behalf.

The San Francisco Examiner believes that this accusation is groundless. First of all, the "Simpson case" involves "Seven", and it is not that "Seven" actively used this case for hype, nor is it that Guess the Movies fabricated the case to hype the movie.

Secondly, after the outbreak of the "Simpson case", many media threw dirty water on Link and falsely accused him of being a murderer. If an innocent person was framed, he would be a fool if he did not refute it. The response of Link and Guess What Pictures in this matter was very reasonable.

Finally, "Seven" is a classic movie that should be seen by more people, and no amount of hype about this kind of movie is too much.

At the same time, the newspaper suggested to Link that if he makes a good movie like "Seven" in the future, he can hype it up with the greatest effort, and movie fans will be happy to support him. However, this is not necessary for a movie like "The Blair Witch Project".

Some media also paid attention to the performance of Guess What Pictures in the first three quarters. As of September, Guess What Pictures released a total of five films, three of which had box office revenues of over 2 million in North America, including "Dumb and Dumber", "Speed" and "Seen", among which "Seen" had box office revenues of over million in North America.

It is also the only Hollywood company that has three movies with North American box office revenues exceeding 100 million. According to the current box office revenue, Guess Pictures is expected to rank among the top three in the industry.

This summer season report card also made colleagues in the film industry envious.

(End of this chapter)